Support for incandescent mantles.



PATENTED AUG; 16, 1904.

. M. HERSKOVITZ. SUPPORT FOR INGANDESGENT MANTLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 12, 1904.

H0 MODEL.

, mantle attached thereto.

Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT EErcE.

MAX HERSKOVITZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SUPPORT FOR INCANDESCENT MANTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,407, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed May 12, 1904. Serial No. 207,549. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX HERSKOVITZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Incandescent lWIantles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in standards or supports for incandescent mantles; and the especial object of the improvements is to provide a support that will protect the mantle from being crushed while in the box in which it is packed and shipped, that will facilitate the handling of the mantle without danger of breakage, that will maintain its erect form after being subjected to heat, that will permit the quick attachment of the mantle suspension-cord to the support, and that will also facilitate the use of a flexible attaching-loop.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention in the following views:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved mantle -support complete with the Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the upper part of the mantle and the mantle-support made with a slight modification of the form shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing the form of supportillustrated in Fig. 1, but indicating a different method of attaching the suspensioncord.

Referring to the drawings in detail, a represents a mantle-support cap of well-known form, which is provided with the usual lateral wings a and vertical tubular sockets'a the same extending on opposite sides of the cap.

7) represents an incandescent mantle of the usual shape, and the same is provided at the top with an asbestos cord Z) in a well-known manner.

0 represents a flexible asbestos suspensioncord, which is preferably formed with a central knot and a depending loop 0', which is passed under the mantle-cord I) and lateral loops, the outer portions of which are passed through the eyes (Z of the mantle-support.

The mantle-support is formed from a single The lower ends of the vertical portions of the support are inserted in the sockets a and are secured therein in any desirable and wellknown manner. The suspension-cord c is passed through the eyes cl and across the ring (Z in two loops, is tied in a single knot about midway the eyes, where a third loop is formed, which hangs downwardlyfrom the knot and has its lower portion passed through the mantle-loop Z), at which point the ends of the cord are tied together.

It should be noted that any inward pressure on the uprights (Z or eyes d will be resisted by the ring (Z said eyes and portion (Z being external of said ring. The ring also serves to protect the top of the mantle when the support is removed from its packing-box for attachment to a gas-burner.

Instead of forming eyes at both ends of the portions (Z I may simply bend the wire, as at (F, as shown in Fig. 2, forming U -shaped bonds, which serve as convenient means of attaching the suspension-cord, and inasmuch as one strand of each of the lateral loops is above the ring (Z it will be impossible for the suspension-cord to slip down along the uprights (Z.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. In a mantle-support, a wire bent to form parallel upright portions and also bent to form eyes at the upper ends of said upright portions, and further bent to form a ring, said ring extending in a horizontal plane, all substantially as set forth.

2. In a mantle-support a wire bent to form parallel upright portions and also bent to form a ring said ring arranged in a plane at right angles to said upright portions and within the planes of the upright portions'said wire overlapping itself for one. side of said ring, substantially as set forth.

3. In a mantle-support a wire bent to form parallel upright portions and also bent to form a ring in a plane at right angles to said nation with the suspension-cord c, all substan- I0 upright portions, and extending between the tially as set forth. upper ends of said upright portions said wire In testimony whereof I affix my signature in also bent to form attaching-points for a manpresence of two witnesses. t e suspension-cor substantially as set forth. q rv 4. In amantle-support, a single ire bent l MAX HERbKOVI'l/J' to form parallel upright portions, also bent to form a horizontal ring, also bent to form Witnesses:

F. BENJMIIN,

eyes on opposite sides of said ring, in eombi- WM. B. MOORE. 

